Re: [Banshee-List] banshee being dropped from ubuntu because of GTK3 support

[Nelson Marques <nmo marques gmail com>]

Hi,

I maintain Banshee for openSUSE (In fact requested today a maintenance
upgrade for 12.1 so that we ship 2.2.1 by default). If there's
anything I can help, just ask around. I'm sure we (and other
packagers) can help each other around.

All the best,
NM

2011/11/3 Chow Loong Jin <hyperair ubuntu com>:
> I don't think that's it, but wild speculations aren't really going to help our
> situation here.
>
> I don't know who suggested switching back to Rhythmbox, but the only valid point
> they have against Banshee is that it's still stuck on Gtk2 and that blocks the
> UbuntuOne Music Store from being ported to Gtk3.
>
> The other point being that Banshee in Ubuntu is not being well-maintained, but
> that's a rather ungrounded opinion, and just plain nonsense, in my opinion.
> (Disclaimer: I maintain banshee in Ubuntu).
>
> For more information, check out the discussion notes at
> <http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-p/meeting/19442/desktop-p-default-apps/>.
>
> Kind regards,
> Loong Jin
>
> On 03/11/2011 20:54, Nelson Marques wrote:
>> Let me guess... Banshee didn't generated enough revenue :)
>>
>> NM
>>
>> 2011/11/3 Mac <macdroid53 gmail com>:
>>> Didn't they just drop R'box for Banshee in 11.x?
>>>
>>> More waffling than a politician... ;-)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:41 AM, olivier dufour <olivier duff gmail com> wrote:
>>>> OK,
>>>> I will try to fix the bug with Ginterface properties.
>>>> Any help welcome!
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Olivier Dufour
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Daniel Hughes <trampster gmail com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I just saw this article, it concerned me a lot and I think it might be of
>>>>> interest to the members of this list.
>>>>> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/rhythmbox-might-replace-banshee-in.html
>>>>> For the lazy here is the important bit:
>>>>> As for the second session, most people who have attended the default
>>>>> applications session today at UDS-P have agreed to replace Banshee with
>>>>> Rhythmbox by default.However, decision is not final as there are a few
>>>>> things that need to be checked first (like Unity Music Lens integration,
>>>>> etc.).
>>>>> The main reason for this is that Banshee still uses GTK2 and the GTK3
>>>>> branch is currently blocked by some missing GTK# 3 features. And this blocks
>>>>> porting the Ubuntu One Music Store plugin to GTK 3.
>>>>> At the end of the session, it was even discussed to completely remove Mono
>>>>> from the CD since only Tomboy and Gbrainy would be using it, but no decision
>>>>> regarding this was taken.
>
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